From a256b3681092703626bc0bbdabf6d86de4ee5441 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabrice Luraine <fabrice.luraine@sofa-design.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:47:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improving htaccess rules to support clean urls with query
 string like http://localhost/api/orders.json?foo=1&bar=2 (will be rewritten
 in http://localhost/api/index.php?uri=orders.json&foo=1&bar=2)

---
 README.mkd                        |  5 ++++-
 examples/urlrewrite/htaccess.conf | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.mkd b/README.mkd
index 45e19c1..a5ec022 100644
--- a/README.mkd
+++ b/README.mkd
@@ -163,7 +163,10 @@ With a `.htaccess` in your app folder
       # test string is a valid directory
       RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
 
-      RewriteRule ^(.*)$   index.php?/$1    [NC,L]
+      RewriteRule ^(.*)$   index.php?uri=/$1    [NC,L,QSA]
+      # with QSA flag (query string append),
+      # forces the rewrite engine to append a query string part of the
+      # substitution string to the existing string, instead of replacing it.
     </IfModule>
 
 And setting explicitly the `option('base_uri')` in your configure() function:
diff --git a/examples/urlrewrite/htaccess.conf b/examples/urlrewrite/htaccess.conf
index e69de29..6843a74 100644
--- a/examples/urlrewrite/htaccess.conf
+++ b/examples/urlrewrite/htaccess.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
+  Options +FollowSymlinks
+  Options +Indexes
+  RewriteEngine on
+  # RewriteBase /my_app/ # if your app is in a subfolder
+
+  # test string is a valid files
+  RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
+  # test string is a valid directory
+  RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
+
+  RewriteRule ^(.*)$   index.php?uri=/$1    [NC,L,QSA]
+  # with QSA flag (query string append),
+  # forces the rewrite engine to append a query string part of the
+  # substitution string to the existing string, instead of replacing it.
+</IfModule>
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